October 6, 2022
A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies in 2019 was sentenced Tuesday to time served and five years of probation. U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik …
December 27, 2021
Capital One Financial Corp. agreed to pay $190 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that customers filed against the firm after a hacker broke into its cloud-computing systems and stole their personal information. Representatives for those customers, Capital One and …
August 7, 2020
Capital One Financial Corp will pay an $80 million penalty to a U.S. bank regulator after the bank suffered a massive data breach one year ago. The fine, announced Thursday by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, punishes …
August 16, 2019
The Seattle woman accused of hacking into Capital One Financial Corp.’s cloud and stealing personal information on more than 100 million Americans also broke into servers of more than 30 other companies, the U.S. said in a request to keep …
August 6, 2019
Equifax 2017. Marriott 2018. Capital One 2019. Data breaches through hacking attacks are distressingly common these days, and personal details about you can lead to identity theft, such as credit cards and loans in your name. But it’s hard to …
August 2, 2019
Federal banking regulators had inspected Amazon.com Inc.’s Virginia facility earlier in April, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The visit by Federal Reserve examiners was made around the same time as, prosecutors alleged, …
August 1, 2019
Capital One Financial Corp., in recent years, has beat the drum every chance it got: The cloud is cheaper. The cloud is faster. And the cloud is far more secure. Then a hacker got into the cloud, siphoning off sensitive …
July 31, 2019
Capital One Financial Corp.’s assurances that a major data breach would have a limited impact on customers or profit failed to convince investors on Tuesday, with the bank’s shares closing down 5.9%. Capital One said the prior day that 106 …